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Research ArticleINTERVENTIONAL

Quality Improvement Guidelines for the Performance of Cervical Carotid Angioplasty and Stent Placement

Developed by a Collaborative Panel of the American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology, the American Society of Neuroradiology, and the Society of Interventional Radiology

John D. Barr, John J. Connors, David Sacks, Joan C. Wojak, Gary J. Becker, John F. Cardella, Bohdan Chopko, Jacques E. Dion, Allan J. Fox, Randall T. Higashida, Robert W. Hurst, Curtis A. Lewis, Terence A.S. Matalon, Gary M. Nesbit, J. Arliss Pollock, Eric J. Russell, David J. Seidenwurm and Robert C. Wallace for the ASITN, ASNR, and SIR Standards of Practice Committees
American Journal of Neuroradiology November 2003, 24 (10) 2020-2034;

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